2018 mlk jr. commemoration

January 14, 2018

Titled, "From King to Kaepernick: Progress through Protest," Duke University invited Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) as the keynote speaker.

robert e. lee statue removal

August 19, 2017

Merely days after protests regarding a Robert E. Lee memorial turned violent in Charlottesville, VA, the Duke community reconsidered its own Lee statue in front of the Chapel, and concurred on its removal. As a result of this incident, President Price established a Commission on Memory.